Re: Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O
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Msg-id 20100423222803.GC2859@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O  (Justin Pasher <justinp@newmediagateway.com>)
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Justin Pasher wrote:

> Agh... I used pg_stats_reset (with an s) when searching for it. I
> ran the function and it returned true, but the stats file only
> shrunk by ~100k (still over 18MB total). Is there something else I
> need to do? Does this mean the file is mostly bloated with bogus
> data that it can't "reset"? I'm guessing I should just try to delete
> the file outright?

Err, yeah, pg_stat_reset only resets the stats for the current database.
You need to reset for all databases, or alternatively, shut down the
server, remove the file, and restart

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